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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: against apple
Message-ID: <1991Apr20.050317.20973@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 20 Apr 91 05:03:17 GMT
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Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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acmfiu@serss0.fiu.edu (ACMFIU) writes:

>. that is exactly why we must stop development for the apple II. it will
>. hurt apple. if it didn't, then apple is not making _any_ money off the apple
>. II, therefore apple would have to reason to keep making the machine. the
>. fact of the matter is apple goes where the money is. if the apple II
>. community let it be known that we would no longer support the machine, that
>. would have a direct effect on apple's income (how much i don't know). i
>. hope all programmers stop programming for the apple II (or release your
>. software _only_ to those who will never ever buy another apple computer.

I can't believe this. No one can be this bitter.

Albert, the lingering development for the II and its history in schools are the
only reasons Apple is still making it. The recent bit about Consumer division
means we might see some real mass-market versions of the ][ (great place for
it, given how old the 8 bit series is and how easy it would be to make it a
studly starter family machine, which is what Laser did).

If everybody agreed with Albert then the ][ would die and all active production
would stop within a month. I do not want to see this happen, I want them to
produce a "they finally got it right" GS before the line is discontinued, so
the GS will not simply fade into history after all.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu